Sr. Manager, Security Engineering, Corporate Services Security (CPSS)
AI summary of the role
Lead a security engineering team embedded with Amazon's HR and Legal application builders, protecting sensitive employee data while driving the shift to continuous automated security evaluation and addressing emerging GenAI and agentic application threats.
What you’ll do
- Define security strategy including threat modeling for GenAI/LLM applications and securing agentic workflows.
- Lead and evolve the team, identifying skill gaps and building future leaders.
- Partner with VP-level builder leadership across HR and Legal to align security priorities.
- Own the transition from scheduled reviews to continuous automated security evaluation.
What you’ll bring
- 10+ years of hands-on security engineering experience.
- 5+ years managing system or software development teams.
- Experience in risk assessment and enabling security decisions.
- Experience communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
Technologies
GenAI · LLM · agentic workflows · threat modeling · security design review · risk analysis · AWS · automated security evaluation
About Amazon (incl AWS)
Online retail, third-party marketplace, Prime/ads/devices, and AWS — the world's largest cloud platform powering startups and enterprises.
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Source and classification
Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:
Lead the security team that protects the HR and Legal applications millions of Amazonians trust with their most sensitive data. You will own the strategy, the team, and the outcomes as we shift to continuous automated security evaluation and tackles a new generation of GenAI and agentic application threats. Key job responsibilities - Define your team's security strategy, including how your team threat models GenAI and LLM-backed applications, secures agentic workflows, and drives adoption of secure-by-default infrastructure across builder teams. - Design and evolve the team to match the work. Identify gaps in skills, roles, and coverage, restructure when priorities shift, and build a bench of future leaders who can operate independently. - Partner with VP-level builder leadership across HR and Legal organizations to align security priorities with business priorities, using data to
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Lead the security team that protects the HR and Legal applications millions of Amazonians trust with their most sensitive data. You will own the strategy, the team, and the outcomes as we shift to continuous automated security evaluation and tackles a new generation of GenAI and agentic application threats. Key job responsibilities - Define your team's security strategy, including how your team threat models GenAI and LLM-backed applications, secures agentic workflows, and drives adoption of secure-by-default infrastructure across builder teams. - Design and evolve the team to match the work. Identify gaps in skills, roles, and coverage, restructure when priorities shift, and build a bench of future leaders who can operate independently. - Partner with VP-level builder leadership across HR and Legal organizations to align security priorities with business priorities, using data to make the case and negotiating when goals compete. - Own the transition from scheduled reviews to continuous automated evaluation. Set the roadmap, resource the investment, measure the outcomes, and course-correct as the model matures. - Build the operational mechanisms your team runs on: escalation paths, inspection cadences, delivery metrics, and feedback loops that surface problems early and scale without adding headcount. - Communicate the security posture and strategy for your domain to sen [... source excerpt omitted ...] on's HR and Legal applications. Your engineers partner directly with builders, reviewing designs and writing detections so security feedback arrives while the code is still fresh. You will collaborate with peer security teams covering finance and communications technology when risks cross domain boundaries. The portfolio is adopting GenAI and agentic capabilities fast, so the security problems are changing in real time. We value clear thinking over heroics, sustainable pace over crunch, and invest equally in technical and management career paths. Diverse Experiences Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed i [... source excerpt omitted ...] hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying. Why Amazon Security? At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores. Inclusive Team Culture In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn
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